Master Classes descriptions

Get down and dirty with your script by tearing it apart, one word at a time. Learn what makes a professionally polished and well-crafted script with expert advice and tips by the highly sought after speaker and screenwriting coach Pilar Alessandra. In this Master Class, you will identify and practice the methods professional writers use to scrutinize their own work. Scene by scene, discover how to make characters and dialogue leap off the page, through the hands of the reader, and onto film and television screens. A career-creating class that you won’t want to miss! 

The first 15 people who sign up will receive in-class feedback on a first page!

Pilar Alessandra is the director of the popular writing program “On the Page”.  She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar Pictures, and has trained writers at ABC/Disney, MTV/Nickelodeon, the National Screen Institute, the Los Angeles Film School, The UCLA Writers’ Program, and more.  Her students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros, and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition and the Nicholl Fellowship.  Pilar’s weekly podcast “On the Page” can be found on iTunes.  Her book “The Coffee Break Screenwriter” will be released fall of 2010.

Screenwriter, author, and script consultant Karl Iglesias will go beyond the basics, teaching you a series of powerful storytelling devices designed to help you create and sustain that emotional charge throughout your screenplay.  You’ll learn how to make your concept appealing, humanize your main characters, energize narrative descriptions, and turn flat, on-the-nose dialogue into individualized speech that leaps off the page.

The main goal is to take your writing to the professional standard of excellence, the level at which the reader of your script can’t help but say “WOW!” after reading your words.